Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-08-06
Miscellaneous.
WHAT KILLS AMERICANS.

Fast Liying--Reckless Eating
Hard Drinking-POOf Sleep
ing-SOcial JealOusy-PO-
Iitical Ambition-ViO-
lent PassiOns-The
Race for Money.
The alarming disease of this
country is nervous debility and
prostration. 1t goes under many
names but it is essentially the
same complaint. Hospitals and
private institutions for nervous
patients are crowded. The aver
age of life in the United States
is decreasing every year. Sud-
den deaths from nervous collapse
among our business, professional
and public men are SO frequent
as scarcely to excite remark
The majority of suicides, COM
mitted without apparent reason,
or under so-called depression
lof spirits, !" are really prompted
by nervous prostration, which is
la fruitful source of insanity and
crime with all their grief and
horror.
These facts are startling. They
threaten the very life of the ma
ton. They assail the springs of
it's power and prosperity. They
wreck manhood's strength and
woman's usefulness and beauty.
| Every one should know the
causes. What are they? The
ANSWER is easy and terribly plain /;
Our vicious personal habits; our
careless and lawless eating and
drinking; the intense mental and
physical strain arising from our
mad race after money, position
and influence !; the fears andstrug-
giles of poverty; the use of mar
cotics and stimulants our fash
ion of turning day into night and
night into day; and, briefly, our
desperate willingness to pay any
price for an hours pleasure or
success. So we burn life's can
die at both ends and fllthe luna
tic asylums and the graveyards.
The disease from which we
suffer and die is, in plain Eng
lish, Nezvoats Dyspepsia, as it is
seated in the Nerves and in the
organs of Digestion, Assimilation
and Nutrition, Healthy digestion
being impeded Or destroyed, the
whole body, nerves included, is
literally starred; even when
there is no emaciation to tell the
sad story.
Nervous prostration sends out
its warnings headache in the
morning ; a persistent dullheavi-
ness or acheing at the base of
brain wakefuIness loss of ap-
petite and disgust with food !;
loss of mental energy and inter-
est in ordinary duties and bust
ness /; restlessness and anxiety
without any assignable reason /;
.eructations I; bad breath foul
mucous on the teeth OCCASION
al giddiness palpitation of the
heart sallowness Of the skin ;
coated tongue and gradual fail
|ure Of strength and ambition.
The remedy is a total aban-
donment of the habits and GUS
toms which cause the disease in
each individual case, and the use
of Shakers Extract Of Roots
(SeigelsSyrup) to cure the mis-
chief already done. This great
remedy, prepared by the Shak-
er Community of Mt. Lebanon,
N. Y, is especially adapted to
eradicate Nervous Dyspepsia.
To do this it acts directly and
gently but powerfully upon the
disordered stomach, liver and
kidneys, restoring their tone and
vigor, promoting the secretion
Of bile, expelling waste matters
from the system, purifying the
blood.
Upon the nervous system
Shaker Ertract (Seigeps Syrup
acts as a safe and wholesome
anodyne without the slightest
narcotic effects, and then leaves
the nerves to regain their natu-
raj tone and strength through
its wonderful influence upon the
function of nutrition.
1t is safe to say more nervous
dyspepticshave been restoredb by
it from the depths of misery to
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